The St James' Gala

WALT apply our maths knowledge in real life contexts.


We had a great discussion about our class collection for the Gala.  One student thought we would win the class competition for donating the most goods as we have the biggest class.(28)  However the donations are based on a percentage because we have to be fair to students in small classes.
We then explored the idea of percentages and how many bags of sugar we would need this week to get 50%? (14)
Next we decided to find out our daily percentage of sugar donations for this week.  Today (Thursday) we had 15 bags and that came to 53.57%.  Anthony rounded this up to 54%.
A wondering though.......since Tim brought a 5kg bag, does that equal 3 bags?


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